: A Dictionary of Historical Terms for Genealogists. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, Inc. 1994. Arlene Eakle and Johni Cerny, eds. The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry Publishing, 1984. Barbara Jean Evans. The New A to Zax: A Comprehensive Genealogical Dictionary for Genealogists and Historians. 2nd ed...
For help with relationship terms (like "once removed" or "third cousin"), see Family Relationship Terms. A a.k.a.Also known as; alias abeyanceA condition of undetermined ownership, as of an estate that has not yet been assigned abstractAbbreviated transcription of a...
A Genealogical Data Communication (GEDCOM) file is a special file format that was developed to provide a standard for encoding genealogical data. It is not used by most family tree software packages but most can import and export to GEDCOM format. Because of this, it is today used by many...
maiden name : the paternal surname of a woman. A woman normally uses her maiden name from birth until her first marriage. It is customary for a woman to cease using her maiden name when she marries, and to adopt in its stead the surname of her husband. In a genealogy, a married woman...
Owner of the dam at time of foaling unless the dam was under a lease or foal-sharing arrangement at the time of foaling. In that case, the person(s) specified by the terms of the agreement is (are) the breeder(s) of the foal. Breeders' Cup Thoroughbred racing's year-end champion...
The Story of the Shura 156 The Expeditions to al-Qādisiyyah and Elsewhere 158 The Marriage of Fāṭimah 161 Notes 167 Glossary of Names, Places, and Terms 208 Genealogical Table of the Quraysh of Mecca 242 Bibliography 243 Further Reading 256 Index 259 About the NYU Abu Dh...
Cf. genealogical kinship qualification. al- : ad-. -al : -alis : -ale : -ial : -eal : pertaining to. Ala. : AL : Alabama. alano mahu : [HI slang] you are a mahu; get real; come down to earth.[51] Cf. mahu. Alanus : Alan. alb: a type of surplice with close-fitting ...
Basic. Not that it was ever called that, but the B programming language was a simplified version of BCPL, in the name of which the B stood for Basic. B was a typeless language like BCPL, and like BCPL also it is remembered today for its genealogical connection to C, explained at the...